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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other Developments. Between the Capitol and the Union Station are now either vacant lots or ramshackle old buildings, many of them of War-time origin. For five million dollars the U. S. acquired this land to develop it into a connecting parkway, to cut a new avenue through from the station to Pennsylvania Avenue...
Last July when the 1930 fiscal year began, President Coolidge, on the advice of Budget Director Lord and Treasury Estimator McCoy, warned of a deficit next June of 94 million dollars. Though it was only on paper, it was used in the campaign as an argument by Republicans against a change in administration, by Democrats as a sign of bad stewardship. By October, President Coolidge foresaw an even break between receipts and expenditures. By December, when President Coolidge sent his budget to Congress, he had discovered a timorous little surplus of 37 millions peeping up at him. By March...
...learned there is no plan for the disposal of this sum which has now been accruing for some years. No doubt it is a comfortable feeling to have a third of a million dollars in one's bank account; something sturdy and respectable to point to, but it does seem a little useless for an organization which has practically nothing in the way of current liabilities. Nor is there any grave danger of a panic in the football market in anticipation of which reserves should be conservatively hoarded...
...international merchandising organization, with its headquarters occupying almost a complete block in Herald Square. Its personnel ranges from seven or eight thousand in the dull season to fourteen thousand at the time of the heaviest Christmas business, and its total annual sales run almost to the hundred million mark...
...prose such swift tumultuous stories as Jane, Our Stranger and Flamingo. But none of her past work presaged the ambitious conception, the flights of rhetoric displayed in her present work, which is the story of Evolution reduced to the limits of the popular novel. Jehovah's "day," a million years in human reckoning, dawns with Eryops, fat and repulsive Mud Puppy who dragged himself from primordial slime; ends with Peregrine, fat and lovable scientist who rose to planes of pure intellect, and his wife Ann who reached for realms of pure spirit only to be dragged back...